A new miniature rose plant named `Poulpah037` that has abundant, red flowers and attractive foliage. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is suitable for year-round production in commercial glasshouses. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.

Claim:

It is claimed:

1. A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the miniature class named `Poulpah037`, substantially as illustrated and described herein, due to its abundant, red flowers,vigorous growth, compact habit, suitability for production from softwood cuttings in pots, and durable flowers and foliage that make the variety suitable for distribution in the floral industry.

Description:

Botanical designation: Rosa hybrid.

Variety denomination: `Poulpah037`.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention constitutes a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant which originated from a controlled crossing between the female seed parent, an unnamed seedling, and the male pollen parent an-unnamed seedling.

The two parents were crossed during the summer of 2002 and the resulting seeds were planted in a controlled environment in Fredensborg, Denmark. The new variety, named `Poulpah037`, originated as a single seedling from the stated cross.

The new variety may be distinguished from its female seed parent mainly in that `Poulpah037` is more compact in growth habit than the seed parent.

The new variety may be distinguished from its male pollen parent by the following combination of characteristics: 1. Flowers of the pollen parent have more than 50 flower petals, while flowers of `Poulpah037` have 15 to 20 flower petals. 2. Flowers of `Poulpah037` are deep pink to red while the pollen parent has flowers which are medium pink.

The objective of the hybridization of this rose variety for commercial culture was to create a new and distinct variety with unique qualities, such as: 1. Uniform and abundant red flowers that retain their color as flowers mature; 2. Vigorousand compact growth; 3. Year-round flowering under glasshouse conditions; 4. Suitability for production from softwood cuttings in pots; 5. Durable flowers and foliage which make a variety suitable for distribution in the floral industry.

This combination of qualities is not present in previously available commercial cultivars of this type, known to the inventors, and distinguish `Poulpah037` from all other varieties of which we are aware.

As part of the rose development program, Mogens N. Olesen germinated the seeds from the aforementioned hybridization and conducted evaluations on the resulting seedlings in a controlled environment in Fredensborg, Denmark. `Poulpah037` wasselected by the inventor as a single plant from the progeny of the hybridization in April 2003.

Asexual reproduction of `Poulpah037` by cuttings and traditional budding was first done by Mogens N. Olesen in the nursery in Fredensborg, Denmark in 2003. This initial and other subsequent propagations conducted in controlled environments havedemonstrated that the characteristics of `Poulpah037` are true to type and are transmitted from one generation to the next.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

The accompanying color illustration shows as true as is reasonably possible to obtain in color photographs of this type, the typical characteristics of the buds, flowers, leaves, and stems of `Poulpah037`. Specifically illustrated in thedrawing:

FIG. 1.1; Flower bud closed, and partially open;

FIG. 1.2; Cluster of flower buds and partially open flower attached to stem;

The following is a description of `Poulpah037`, as observed in its growth in glasshouses in Fredensborg, Denmark. Observed plants are 4 months of age and were cultivated in 12 cm pots. Color references are made using The Royal HorticulturalSociety (London, England) Colour Chart, 2001, except where common terms of color are used.

For a comparison, several physical characteristics of the rose variety `Poulac016`, described and illustrated in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 15,874, are compared to `Poulpah037` in Chart 1.